Most of the New Year's decorations are within the power of not only craftswomen-needlewomen, but even small children:many New Year's salt dough crafts are created using cookie cutters. These "cookies" can be hung on a Christmas tree or made into garlands.

Another plus of cookies is their safety: even curious babies or puppies will not harm themselves.

Commemorative prints

To make the simplest New Year's craft from salt dough, you only need your hands. Print your palm on a sheet of dough, and when it dries, paint it like a Christmas tree.You can collect memorable handprints of the whole family.

Souvenir version of the craft - a Christmas tree with fingerprints. The prints are painted in different colors, the thread of the garland is drawn, and such a craft can already be presented to the most dear and close people.

Christmas decorations-cookies made of salted dough

New Year's salty "cookies" can be molded from colored dough, or painted after drying with gouache or glitter glitter... For example, as in these photos.

If you are familiar with decoupage, use your skills to decorate the base cookie with beautiful New Year stories.

Salted dough crafts made for the New Year can be decorated with any means at hand - fragrant spices, beans or cereals (birds outside the window will be happy with such a gift) or even pasta(they are good for imitating the curly wool of a lamb).

Snowflakes and Christmas trees made of salt dough, painted markers... Such snowflakes can be collected in garlands or used as Christmas decorations.

To make salt dough snowflake crafts on New Year's Eve shine like real ones, before painting them, you can sground with silver paint... Another trick that will help make the salty dough more airy is to cut windows in the middle of the star from the dough, also in the form of stars.

You can quickly paint Christmas decorations from salt dough using stamps- cut them out of eraser or use decorations, twigs, toys as stamps ...

Solar garland

Simple New Year's fabulous beauty - a garland of snowflakes with transparent centers. To make it, you need to fill the middle with plastic beads and bake the craft. Of course, the whole house will smell of burnt plastic, but the result will shine in the sun.

If you want to do without the plastic stench, place a caramel in the middle of each snowflake. When the sugar melts, you will see a colored window - or brown if you overdo the snowflakes a little.

Master class with a step-by-step photo "New Year's gifts" using the technique of molding from salt dough.

Author: Galanova Daria, 9 years old student of MBU DO DDiU association "Salty fantasies", Millerovo
Teacher: Nazarova Tatyana Nikolaevna, teacher of additional education MBU DO DDiU, Millerovo

The master class is very simple in complexity, perhaps it will be useful for kindergarten teachers of senior and preparatory groups. In this case, you can pre-cut the blanks of snowmen and mittens from the dough. Dry them, and in the classroom, invite the children to make the rest of the moldings. The master class will also be interesting
everyone who loves to sculpt from salt dough. Make gifts for friends and loved ones. And also teachers of additional education, primary school teachers, teachers of extended day groups.
Purpose: New Year gifts.
Purpose: creation of New Year's gifts using the technique of modeling from salt dough.
Tasks:
Educational: master the technique of making gifts from salt dough;
Developing: develop accuracy in modeling, artistic thinking;
Educational: encourage the desire to give New Year's gifts made with your own hands;

Required material:
Paper napkin, stack, glass of water, "Extra" salt, premium flour, cutting for dough "snowman" 10.5 x 6 cm, photo frame, colored paper, floral mesh "snow", "small mitten" 5 x 2.5 cm cocktail tube, ballpoint pen without paste, rolling pin, pencil.
Salty dough recipe:
Combine 1 cup flour and 0.5 cups of salt. Stir, make a hole. Gradually, pour in 1 glass of cold water in a thin stream. Knead into a tight, elastic dough. Store the dough in a cellophane bag.
Snow recipe
In a small saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons of water and 1 teaspoon of potato starch. Stir and put on low heat. At the same time, stir constantly. As soon as the mixture becomes transparent, remove it from the stove and immediately add 1 glass of Extra salt. First with a spoon, and as soon as the mixture cools down a little, you can stir it with your hands. The snow is ready. Transfer it to a plastic bag and close it securely. It is important that no air enters the package.
Progress:

Roll out the dough 5-7 mm thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the "snowman" and transfer to a paper napkin.

Mark the eyes with a pencil, push your mouth with a stack. With a stack, make a mark for yourself where you glue the snowman's hat.

Form a cake from a small lump of dough. Cut it in half. Moisten the snowman's head with water and glue the hat. We glue all the elements of the composition with cold water. Roll up a small, thin flagellum and glue it onto the hat. We sculpt a fur hat. Form a ball from a small lump and glue a bell.

Form a very small carrot and glue the spout to the snowman.

Roll up a thin flagellum and glue a scarf to the snowman.

From small, identical lumps, form two lumps similar to beans and glue the legs.

Using a ballpoint pen without paste, push the buttons down the snowman's center.

From a lump the size of a large plum, form a gift box and glue a snowman on the hand. It turns out that the snowman is holding a gift in his hands. Glue the gift more tightly so that after the craft dries, it does not fall off.
The snowman is ready, we start sculpting mittens.

Roll out the dough 3-4 mm thick. Cut out two small mittens.

Stack the cuffs on the mittens. Make holes with a cocktail tube.

Blind a very small snowman on one of the mittens.

Glue the Christmas tree and toy balls on the second mitten.
So quickly we made mittens.
Place the snowman and mittens on a sunny windowsill. In the air, crafts are dried for about 5-7 days. Although the mittens will of course dry out in a couple of days, since they are not as bulky as a snowman.
Crafts are dry. Paint them with paints, cover with glossy varnishes.
We glue the snowman in a frame, decorate with glitter. Spread a layer of PVA glue under the snowman's legs, put "snow". Tighten it lightly. Once the glue is dry, the "snow" will adhere firmly. Such "snow" can be stored for a couple of days in a plastic bag.
The snowman is ready.
Pass the tape through the mittens. Decorate with glitter
Gifts for the New Year are ready.

Happy New Year!

Salted dough is the simplest, most environmentally friendly and affordable material for children's crafts. Today we will tell you how to make a snowman from such a dough and what other New Year's crafts from salt dough you can make with your child.

The long-awaited New Year is coming soon. Preparations for this wonderful holiday always begin about a month before it, or even earlier. Children especially love preparations for New Year's holidays. They are happy to take part in making New Year's decorations for the home. So that you do not worry about the safety of materials for children's crafts, prepare salty dough and let the child make his own New Year's toys.

Children's crafts for the New Year made from salted dough can become not only a wonderful decoration for an apartment for the holiday, but also a lovely gift for family and friends.

How to make salty dough: recipe

The recipe for salt dough for modeling is incredibly simple, the main thing is to maintain proportions and mix well. You'll need:

• 1 cup flour
• 0.5 cups salt (not iodized)
• 125 ml water

Stir water into the dough gradually, achieving a uniform smooth mass. For large and voluminous crafts, it is better to take 2 cups of salt, while not changing the amount of flour and water. You can store ready-made salty dough in the refrigerator, be sure to wrap it in a bag.

Master class on how to make a snowman from salt dough for the New Year

A New Year's snowman made of salt dough, which a child can make with his own hands only with your little help, will become a wonderful Christmas tree decoration, a holiday gift or a favorite toy.

For children's crafts for the New Year "Snowman" you will need:

• blue gouache
• garlic
• toothpick
• acrylic lacquer

1. Prepare salt dough out of water, flour and salt. Divide the modeling dough into two parts: a larger one and a smaller one. The smaller part of the test should be stained blue with gouache.

2. Now you can start making a snowman with your own hands: from white dough you need to make two cakes of different sizes for the body and head of the snowman. As soon as the head is sculpted, immediately form the mouth, eyes with a toothpick. Now attach the arms and legs.

3. From the blue dough, mold a hat of the desired shape, you can apply a pattern with a toothpick. Next, roll out a rectangle of blue dough - this will be a scarf, make the desired pattern on it. Next, make the buttons.

4. Insert a toothpick into the snowman's hand - this is the base of the broom. Squeeze out a little blue dough through the garlic, form a broom from it, let it dry a little, and then put it on a toothpick.

Salted sculpting dough is a safe material for kids' crafts. You can make cool Christmas tree toys of any shape from it. Let's take a look at a few master classes that the designers have prepared.

Salty dough recipe

For dough crafts, take:

• 1 cup salt
• 1 cup flour;
• water;
• colored gouache.

This is the easiest salt dough recipe. To improve it, add 5 tablespoons of sunflower oil.

IDEA! The paint can be replaced with juice (cherry or beetroot). If a child eats a piece of dough while sculpting, he will definitely not be poisoned. The dough can be dyed at the end.

How to make dough at home? Step by step:

1. Put all the ingredients in a deep plate. First dry, then only water and oil.
2. Mix everything to make the dough like dumplings. It doesn't have to be oak.
3. To make the mass faster, turn on the mixer.

IDEA! If the toys are small or you need to make small parts, make the dough separately with PVA or starch. There may be some glue left after wallpapering. Use it instead of PVA.

How to make crafts from salt dough with your own hands

Salty dough, the recipe of which will be easy even for children, is a very flexible material, but it is absolutely safe in composition. Add food colors or even natural ones (juices of fruits or vegetables) to it. Even if you leave the child alone for modeling, nothing will happen to him.

Sculpting tools:

1. rolling pin;
2. working flat surface;
3. ball pen;
4. paint brush;
5. a cup;
6. threads;
7. medium-sized needle;
8. silicone baking dishes;
9. any stencils for patterns;
10. paint (acrylic or gouache);

To prevent the gouache from cracking, add glue to it.

We cover the figurine with paint and varnish

The dye is added not only at the stage of kneading the dough, but also during sculpting. Just divide the dough into several parts (1 part \u003d 1 color), make a depression in the center and add the dye. When sculpting, it will be distributed evenly over the entire piece.

With an ordinary brush, you need to paint the grooves from the paw

When the figurine is ready, cover it with varnish, so the paint will definitely not roll and brighten. The aerosol form will facilitate the coating process.

If the varnish is liquid, cover the toy in several layers. Thick cover in one layer. It can also be matte.

IMPORTANT! If you dry the toy properly, you can do without varnish. It is needed if you are not quite sure that you did everything correctly.

What could go wrong?

1. Cracks or bubbles appear after drying. This means you did not dry the figurine correctly. Most likely high temperature with the oven door closed. Try sanding these areas with sandpaper.
2. Cracks can also appear after painting. Let the craft dry completely and only then paint. Dry the figure in natural conditions, sand the cracks with sandpaper and paint again.
3. If any part of the figure breaks off, glue it with PVA.
4. Store figurines in a dry place at normal room temperature. They can be folded into any cardboard box, then nothing will happen to them for sure by the next holiday.

Simple Christmas decorations made of salt dough for beginners

Let's take a look at a few step-by-step workshops and see how to make simple but interesting toys from the Christmas tree dough.

Idea 1. Gingerbread men

Try making gingerbread men with your kids. It will be a lot of fun. Do the most difficult stages of work, and let the dough knead yourself. Show what kind of face the little man will have, let them try to repeat it.

Idea 2. Flat multi-colored figures

We will need: flour, salt, water - for the dough; blender; dyes for its color; molds in the form of circles and hearts; rolling pin; ribbons, twine or thread, a sharp object for holes and decorating figures; parchment for baking

Idea 3. Snowflakes with patterns

How to save on holiday packaging and do it yourself, look in the article

What else can you mold from salt dough to decorate a Christmas tree? Let's try to make snowflakes.

Take the same compound for the test, acrylic paint in three colors (we have white, black and blue). From tools - a ballpoint pen, a stationery knife and a round object for extrusion. Markers will also come in handy

Idea 4. Shiny figurines

Plus products made from salt dough in their weight - the toys are very light. The branches will not bend.

You can make a lot of toys and thickly decorate the Christmas tree with them. It will be very beautiful

Option 5. Circles with flowers

Idea 6. Silver stars

Let's try to make shiny stars on the Christmas tree

Idea 7. Name tags for gifts

Labels can be not only in the form of hearts, flowers or rectangles. For a New Year's gift, try making a house or a snowflake.

IMPORTANT! What to give loved ones and relatives for the New Year and Christmas 2018 read in the article

Idea 8. Lace plates It is very interesting for children to make three-dimensional figures. You can start with simple vegetables. Use artificial thread to make pumpkin segments

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Modeling is one of the most rewarding activities for babies. With its help, not only fine motor skills of the hands develops, but also perseverance, imaginative thinking and coordination of movements are developed.

One of the best materials for sculpting with your child is salt dough. It is completely safe, does not contain harmful additives and is easy to use. Crafts made from salt dough with your own hands will become wonderful souvenirs for your relatives and friends.

Universal recipes

You can find a great variety of salt dough recipes. Each master adds his own additives to them, selecting the desired consistency. The main products for kneading dough are salt, flour and water.

Depending on the purpose, its density may be different:

• dense dough - for large parts and creating massive panels;
• universal dough of medium consistency - it is convenient to make small pictures and figures from it;
• soft dough - delicate and pliable, suitable for small items, exquisite flowers and figurines.

Some needlewomen measure ingredients in grams, others prefer to use proportions in parts.

Thick dough

For work you will need:

1. wheat flour - 1 part;
2. edible salt - 1 part;
3. water - 0.7 parts.

That is, to knead this type of dough, you need to take one identical measure (glass, cup, tablespoon) of salt and flour and 0.7 of the same measure of water.

Combine dry ingredients in a deep bowl and add cold water little by little. The dough should be smooth and very firm. Grains of salt will remain in it - this is normal, do not worry. Depending on the moisture content and quality of flour and salt, a little more or less water may be needed. Therefore, you cannot pour it into the dough all at once.

Medium dough (universal)

For work you will need:

1. wheat flour - 1 part;
2. water - 1 part;
3. edible salt - ½ part;
4. finely ground salt (extra) - ½ part.

By replacing half of the coarse salt with fine salt, this type of dough turns out to be more plastic and pliable. It is convenient to sculpt even a child from such an obedient mass. But for the smallest details and realistic crafts, such a dough is also not suitable.

Soft dough

For work you will need:

1. wheat flour - 1 part;
2. hot water - 1/4 part;
3. finely ground salt (extra) - 1 part;
4. pVA glue - ¾ part.

Combine salt and flour, then add thick PVA glue and stir. Pouring in hot water little by little, knead a soft dough. It must be wrapped in plastic wrap, allowed to rest and cool.

This dough is ideal for tricky work. It perfectly holds its shape, preserving the prints and texture created on it. Its quality directly depends on the quality of the selected glue.

Figurines sculpted from salt dough with glue differ special durability. They will delight their owner for more than one year.

1. If you plan to dye finished products, it is better to use wheat flour, although rye flour can also be used for salty dough.
2. Do not take iodized salt - the finished figurines may crack when dried.
3. The dough can be dyed even during kneading. For this, food colors or watercolors are used.
4. The finished dough must be wrapped in plastic wrap or plastic bag to prevent it from drying out.
5. Unsuccessful dough can be reanimated. Add a little more flour to the liquid one and knead it again, the too tight dough is moistened with water and kneaded, achieving the desired consistency.
6. Do not add grease or hand cream to the dough you intend to dye from - the paint will not lay evenly.
7. The finished dough should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. It loses its qualities and it will be inconvenient to work with it.
8. It is best to sculpt bulky products on wire or cardboard frames so that they do not fall apart.
9. Crafts can be dried naturally by leaving them for a couple of days, baked in a warm oven, or left next to a battery. It is categorically not recommended to put figures on the battery itself in order to avoid their cracking.
10. It is best to paint crafts with acrylic paint or gouache. Do not use watercolors: there is a risk of soaking and ruining the product.
11. The junction of the parts must be moistened with water using a brush. So they will connect firmly and quickly.
12. The finished souvenir can be coated with colorless nail polish or acrylic varnish. This will protect it from moisture and the paint from fading.

Armed with your new knowledge, try putting it into practice.

Cute hedgehog - toy for toddlers

Do you want to know what you can do with your child from salt dough? Start with the simplest crafts. The younger your baby is, the easier products for joint creativity should be. Try to mold a prickly hedgehog, and a detailed description of the process in this mk guarantees an excellent result and a good mood from a useful activity.

The first step is to prepare your all-purpose salt dough and nail scissors. Roll a drop-shaped blank from a piece of dough.

The eyes and nose of a hedgehog can be made from beads, black peppercorns, or pre-dyed dough.

The needles are made using incisions. Use the tips of the scissors to make small cuts while lifting the needles up.

Perform the next row in a checkerboard pattern - with an offset. Make cuts row by row until the entire back of the hedgehog is covered with needles.

Dry the finished toy in the oven or simply in a warm and dry place. If you wish, you can color it or entrust this important matter to a child.

An original souvenir - a funny dachshund

You can start preparing for the upcoming New Year holidays in advance and make a funny dachshund as a gift to your friends.

For work you will need:

• universal salted dough (see recipe above);
• cardboard, pencil, scissors;
• paint and brush;
• a piece of rope;
• clear nail polish;
• toothpick;
• foam sponge;
• glue "Dragon".

Prepare a drawing of a dachshund. You can sketch it by hand or print it out. Cut out the outline of the dog.

Transfer the template to a piece of cardboard and cut.

Roll out the dough about 5 mm thick on baking paper. Attach the template and cut the outline of the dachshund along it. Carefully remove the cuttings so as not to deform the workpiece.

Roll two balls and form them into oblong dachshund eyes. Glue them on a drop of water to the head of the workpiece. Moisten all sections of the dog with water and iron it with your fingers to remove all the irregularities.

Use two small pieces of dough to make the eyelids and glue them over the eyes. Use a toothpick to outline the ear, legs, mouth, nose and body contours.

Now you need to add volume to the workpiece. Roll an oval out of the dough, glue it to your ear and smooth the joint with a wet finger.

Add volume to the back and tail of the dachshund in the same way.

Use a toothpick to press the oblong indentations along the perimeter of the figurine. Make them randomly of different lengths from the edges of the body to the center.

It's time to dry the workpiece in a warm oven. Bake it until it is completely hard.

The dry figurine needs to be painted. Cover with black gouache any bumps and dents.

After the first coat of paint has dried, paint the dachshund yellow. Put some paint on a foam sponge and tint the whole body, while the dents should remain black - do not overdo it.

For a dried dachshund, paint the eyes with white. Make any inscription you want.

Glue a piece of string to the back of the craft.

Cover the item with clear varnish and let it dry. The result of the work done is impressive - the mischievous puppy is ready.

Dog with original coloring:

Spectacular fish - step by step master class

Try to mold a beautiful fish with your child. Just follow the detailed instructions and even a little assistant can master this sculpting technique.

For work you will need:

• salty dough universal;
• brush;
• grooved felt-tip pen cap;
• ruler.

On baking paper or foil, roll the salted dough into a 3-4 mm thick layer. Cut out the circle using a special cut or just a round glass of a suitable diameter.

Squeeze the dough on one side of the circle with two fingers, forming a ponytail.

Correct it and smooth out any irregularities.

On the opposite side, make the mouth of the fish with the handle of the brush.

Use the edge of a ruler or the blunt side of a knife to press through the marks on the tail and fins.

Roll up small balls and glue them on the head of the fish. These will be the eyes.

Make pupils out of the smaller balls and press them against the eyes with the brush handle.

It's time to decorate the workpiece. Use the cap of a felt-tip pen to push through the first row of scales.

Roll many small balls. Glue them on a drop of water to the body of the fish just behind the cap imprints and flatten with the back of the brush.

If there is a suitable print, make a starfish print, no - get by with the already familiar cap or take a different template.

Then push in two more rows of cap prints.

Roll a thin sausage to shape the tail.

Glue it to the blank on the edge of the tail. Fill in the entire tail in the same way.

Next, randomly glue and push in a few more small balls.

Dry the resulting workpiece in a warm oven.

Color the fish, guided by your ideas of beauty and colors available. If you stick a magnet on the back of it, it will proudly take its place on the refrigerator, decorating the kitchen of its lucky owner.

And here are some more fish ideas:

Cheerful boletus mushroom

The initial stage of learning to sculpting is already over - you can take on more complex products from universal salt dough. Try to master the lesson of making a funny big-eyed boletus. Such an interesting mushroom will be appreciated not only by a child, but also by an adult.

For work you will need:

• salty dough universal;
• a burnt out light bulb (classic pear-shaped);
• cardboard;
• acrylic paint or gouache;
• foil;
• paper napkins;
• masking tape;
• super glue.

Cover the light bulb with tape and cover with dough. Let the workpiece dry completely at room temperature or in a warm oven.

Cut a ring out of cardboard and put it on a light bulb - this is the basis of the future mushroom cap.

Use crumpled paper towels to form a hat of the desired size. Secure the structure with tape.

The result is such a blank.

Wrap foil around the hat for extra durability.

For the hat, you can use dough of any color, later the whole toy will be dyed. Roll out a piece of dough into a circle at least 3 mm thick and stick over the top of the mushroom cap.

Remove the hat and cover the bottom of it.

Use the blunt side of the knife to push through the strips.

Secure the cap to the stem of the mushroom using super glue or Moment. It should be tilted slightly towards the back.

Take care of the design. Blind and secure the handles, legs and spout to the fungus.

You can decorate the figurine with a funny caterpillar or mold another decorative element, such as a ladybug.

Dry the shaped workpiece.

Color in the figurine, draw the eyes and nose, and cover with varnish. The amazing fungus is ready. Salting and eating it will not work, but decorating a shelf with it is easy.

Funny piggy pendants

Such funny pendants are the idea of \u200b\u200ban unusual Christmas tree toy or a cute souvenir for people dear to you. Such a thematic present will be very useful, because the patron saint of 2019 is a yellow pig.

For work you will need:

• salty dough universal;
• toothpick;
• thin rope;
• paint and brush;
• foam sponge;
• black gel pen;
• super glue.

Form a flattened circle - piggy body. In its center, stick a smaller circle - a patch. Use a toothpick to push through your nostrils.